Voluntary carbon offsets often fail to deliver what they promise
Malte Toetzke calls for more ambitious standards in the voluntary carbon offset market. While this would lead to fewer projects getting funded, the benefit for the climate would be greater overall.
Malte Toetzke, currently a PhD candidate at SusTec and focusing on the global transition towards net-zero emissions, has recently published an article on ETH's Zukunftsblog.
In this blog post, he calls for more ambitious standards in the voluntary carbon offset market. While this would lead to fewer projects getting funded, the benefit for the climate would be greater overall.